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Monday, December 31, 2012

2012: What Was It Good For?

I swear, didn't 2012 suck? Sandy. Sandy Hook. Scott Walker's re-election. Unions lost even more power. More people getting poorer, the rich getting richer. OWS did not (or did not YET) lead to the Revolution. The Right in this country grew even crazier. My little dog Spike died.

Maybe things were not as bad as they might have been, though. I mean, we did re-elected Obama, which is better than the obverse.

And I'm trying to think of some other thing decent that happened this year.

Crystal Bridges opened -- I supposed that's something, though it's a mixed blessing. Everyone here in Arkansas loves it a lot. But I'm still a bit bitter about its real cost.

In the Spring, I am teaching Women in Lit (START THE REVOLUTION NOW!) and Writing the Novel.

And more and more people seem inclined to believe that gay people should have rights, trans people should have rights, poor people and women and brown people should have rights, and that maybe letting rich people own the world isn't (after all) the best plan ever.